The Canterbury Tales, as a whole, exhibit different social conventions of the Fourteenth Century and exploit them for being a kind of facade. ... The Fourteenth Century was a restrictive time based on the social conventions of social hierarchy, gender, and religion. ... The upper class did not interact with the lower class due to their social divisions. ... The Canterbury Tales explores and exploits social conventions through different character's perspectives. Although, these characters are separated by social classes, there are overlapping themes throughout various stories. ...

• Word Count: 3668
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in the immediate post-war period. It coordinated the interests of workers and employers by restructuring their relationships around a new social contract. ...

• Word Count: 2505
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• Grade Level: High School

No social organization developed it. ... Conjugal love is a way to express marriage that comes from a covenant and a family and the legal entity of marriage is considered to be a contract (Reference 5 pg. 6). ... A covenant is what a marriage is and how it is expressed while a contract is what constitutes a marriage (Reference 5 pg. 7). ... The institution of marriage falls under the contract part of it. ...

• Word Count: 4288
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: High School

The humour in the play makes social status, marriage and money as a measure of personal worth look spurious and nonsensical. The implication is that things such as social status, marriage and money have no real worth and should therefore be mocked. ... (Act 2 page 46) The play makes it clear that people in the upper class society wear a social mask and pretend to be good whilst being wicked. ... Earnest as a noun means part payment made in advance to confirm a contract. ... The institution of marriage is satirised as a means to gain social status and financial benefit. ...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. ... It is always in fact the repetition of marriage contract, entered individually with each wife, establishing an individual relationship between the man and each of his consorts (Benson 1971). ... A multitude of wives, however, may increase not only a man's wealth but also his social importance, reputation and authority, apart from the influence of the number of his children. Hence, we find in man...

• Word Count: 3116
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the social stature of women in China has grown tremendously compared to 20,000 years ago. ... These grounds were, "not bearing a son, being licentious (lacking moral or sexual restraint), not waiting on her mother-in-law, nagging, stealing, showing jealousy, or contracting an incurable disease." ...

• Word Count: 2634
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

These attitudes relate to gender roles and social changes in today's society and have contributed to women marrying later than their ancestors married. ... "People don't have to stay married because of economic forces now . . . we are in the midst of trying to renegotiate what the marriage contracts is - what men and women are suppose to do as partners" (Gleick, 1995). ...

• Word Count: 3315
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• Grade Level: High School

Having read the two ethnographies of C. K. Meek and his follower F. Rehfisch I have decided to write about three aspects of Mambila's life; marriage and death and the belief in their ancestors. As we will see there are many disagreements between Meek and Rehfisch of various aspects of Mambila's l...

• Word Count: 3177
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• Grade Level: High School

Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... The lesson that WB learns is obvious: marriage is contracted for money, and the acquisition of money is equivalent to the attainment of honor, respect, and independence (Carruthers 214). ...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
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